In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 poster

In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

The Valour and the Horror

Description: A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an inexperienced battalion of the Canadian Black Watch Regiment launched a doomed attack and was defeated with heavy casualties by veteran German SS troops. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.

Genres: War, Documentary

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Budget: $0 | Revenue : $0

Runtime: 104 minutes

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Terence McKenna

Played Narrator

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Roman Jarymowycz

Played interviewer

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Jacques Dextraze

Played Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

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Sydney Radley-Walters

Played Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)

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Patrick Goyette

Played Joseph Le Boutillier

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Nicholas Campbell

Played Guy Simonds

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Adrian Hough

Played German Officer

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Wayne Robson

Played Donald Pearce

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Nigel Bennett

Played Kurt Meyer

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Stewart Arnott

Played Harry Foster

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